Posted on 12/24/2007 8:01:39 AM PST by grundle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1C44JQU7Pc
Tesla Roadster
If I were an investor (or customer) - I would divest (or demand my deposit back).
Ping!
I’m hoping that Tesla will offer to to pay for any transmission replacements that need to be peformed, and that a permanant fix will be found soon.
I am so excited about this car, this is very disappointing.
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Thanks.
Usually this sort of thing can be handled through programming, but I know the torque curve of an electric motor is very different than that of an internal combustion engine. But still...
OK. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Sounds like very stupid business to me; no gasoline powered car would survive more than a couple of months without a clutch of some sort and it sounds like that’s what might be missing.
Room enough for a chick.
And that's all that really matters. :-)
Ford makes Tesla? ;^)
Good God. Note how the first post underneath it is a exhortation from a Ron Paul lunatic. What is that all about?
I sure wouldn’t mind having one of those things...if the transmission worked correctly...and someone bought the thing for me!
Lunatic or not; Ron Paul has a large number of people getting him visibility.
As for cars, I’m partial to classics.
But that doesn't change the fact that Tesla should have told customers about this problem before they took money for the car. Tesla has repeatedly said that the car required almost no maintenence, so this newly revealed information contradicts that claim.
I presume you are an advocate of Hunter’s campaign? I am as well...but I disagree about Ron Paul the “large number of people getting him visibility”. I think it is a smaller number of people slavishly spending their time and money to inflate his perceived influence. And a lot of them are Libs. And a lot of libs want to foster this viewpoint, because they somehow think he is going to draw more conservatives than liberals.
As for cars...I am partial to American cars from 1955-1972. I had a dream last night that I needed some work done on my broken down car, but had no money so I offered to do mechanic’s work in exchange (used to be a jet mechanic, so I can turn a wrench when needed).
They took me in, and offered to take me to lunch if I purchased a 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner from them. I looked at it, noted all the rust, and they said we were taking it to lunch. As we piled in to drive it to lunch (they made me drive)the bloody thing had a front end so out of alignment that I had to turn the wheels at nearly right angles to make it go straight...and the brakes were so dilapadated that when I put it in gear, it rolled backwards and smashed into a couple of other junkers they had there. Then, as I went forward, I sideswiped another junker because I hadn’t figured out the front end mangulation yet. I thought to myself, “This is one hell of a first impression I am making here...”
I have NO idea what that dream meant.
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